Paul Broun op-ed: Ryan budget ‘fails’

A member of the congressional Tea Party Caucus has taken to the pages of The New York Times to slam Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget for not going far enough in cutting spending.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who is running to replace retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss in 2014, unpacked his opposition to the Wisconsin Republican’s budget in a lengthy piece that ran in Tuesday’s paper.

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“The latest budget proposal by Representative Paul D. Ryan, called ‘The Path to Prosperity,’ is anything but,” Broun wrote. “It fails to seriously address runaway government spending, the most pressing problem facing our nation. I cannot vote for something that would trick the American people into thinking that Congress is fixing Washington’s spending problem, when in actuality we’d just be allowing it to continue without end.”

Broun called for other strategies including deeper cuts, eliminating federal agencies like the Departments of Education and Energy and a balanced-budget amendment, which he noted that he has proposed.

“Just reducing growth in spending does almost nothing,” he wrote. “We have to dig deeper and make profound cuts now. We cannot continue to assume that future Congresses will do our dirty work for us.”